Albert osvalb



A. OSVALD MOP WRINGER Jan; 31, 1928.

Filed June 20. 1927 4 INVENTOI K559771950 I ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 31 1928.

UNITED STATES PATET ALBERT OSVALD, 0]? LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

M01? WRINGER.

Application filed June 20, 1927. Serial No. 200,182.

This invention relates to a cloth wringing mechanism and has for an object to provide a simple, practicable and substantial unitary organization adapted to be solidly and permanently secured within and below therim of a suitable bucket, it being understood that able to various s zes of buckets.

An object is to provide a wringer mpre especially designed for the wringing of mops and to provide a central arrangement of effective rollers in a bucket to avoid over-slopping of water from the mop be ng wrung.

A further purpose is to provide a wringer the wrineer unit may be made in sizes adaptunit including frame parts attachable to the interior wall surface of a bucket and having pivoted thereon a bail operating a roller and serving as a handle for the bucket to elim1- nate mounting of one on the bucket itself.

An additional object is to provide a wringer of few differentiated parts sothat the cost of manufacture can be kept low and to enable a low retail price.

Another object is to provide a wringer attachment which can be bodily installed either in course of bucket manufacture or to stocks of buckets in storage, warehouse or store supply by the mere drilling or punching of holes for bolts or rivets by which the assembled unit as a whole can be secured to the bucket.

Additional objects, features and advantages will be made manifest in the following specification of the herewith illustrated embodiment; it being understood that llloCl'lfi' cations, variations and adaptations maybe resorted to within the scope, spirit and principle of the invention as it is more particularly claimed hereinafter.

Figure l is a perspective of the open \vringer unit, ready for installation.

Figure 2 is a plan of a bucket showingthe unit installed and in closed position.

The unit as adapted for a given size bucket B, has a pair of side rails 2 and 3 of duplicate climracter except that their ends are oppositely in turned so as to lie against the interior surface of the bucket wall where they are secured just below the top edge as by belts or rivets 4. The rails are slotted, at 5, longitudinally to receive a floating: shaft 6 carrying a compressing roller 7.

The ends of the shaft 6 project through the rails to connect with the lower ends of ing up and connecting at pivots 9 to the rollers one of which near shanks of a bail 10 whose lower ends are pivoted at 11 to rails 23 about midway their length so that when the unit is attached to a bucket B the bail not only serves to shift the roller 7 sidewise but will. also funct onas a handle for the bucket.

The roller '2' is movable over toward a but tress roller 13 having a shaft 14 hung in the rails23.

The bail 10 is shown as pivoted on the rails suliistantially along: a diameter of the bi'icket so that this will balance when lifted by the handle.

Preferably, though optionally, a means is provided to automatically bring the bail to an upright position and is here shown asineluding a bell-crank spring having a coil 15 with an arm 16 hooking back of the bail and an arm 17 hooking under the near rail 2; the arm 16 being tensioned to draw the bail up.

The rollers are so relatively disposed in the bucket that when the bail 10 is pressed down, as in 2, they come together about medially of the bucket. This is to keep the water wrung from the interposed cloth from over-slopping; the rollers terminating; well within the bucket at their ends.

What is claimed is:

1. A mop-wringing bucket attachment in cluding a pair of side rails having longitudinal slots, a pair of parallel compressing rollers one of which is slidablymounted in the slots of the rails, a bail pivoted on the rails medially between their ends to form a handle for the bucket and having links connected to the sliding roller whereby it can be bodily shifted. to and fro; said. rails being fittable as a unit inside the wall of the bucket with the bail on a dian'icter of the bucket.

2. A mop-wringing bucket attaclunont in cluding a pair of side rails having longitu dinal slots, a pair of parallel compressing is slidable in the rail. slots. a bail pivoted on the rails on a line below the plane of inovel'ucnt of the sliding roller and having; links outside of said rails and coiuiected to the sliding roller, said rails having ends to ie t against the bucket wall and means passing through said ends to sccure theattachment in place in the bucket.

33. Awringer device attachable as a unit inside of a bucket and having a pair of slotted side rails having ends to fit the bucket wall, a bail pivoted medially of the length of the rails to form a diametrical handle for the bucket, 21 buttress rollenmounted in and between the mils and to one side of the bail axis a roller slid-ably mounted in the rails and at the opposite side of the axis of the ba il, and links connecting the bail to the latter roller to move ittoward and from the buttress roller to compress an object thereagainst, said rollers, when closed, being substantially diametricel. to the bucket to avoid over-sloppingfrom wringing actions.

4.111 a mop Wiinger, side rails attachable to the inside of a bucket Wall, rotatable buttress roller hnne' there-between and a compression roller laterally shiitnble therein, a bail pivoted on end medially between the ends of the tails and operatively connected to the shiftable roller with thebail on the diameter of the bucket, and means for antomatically bringing the bail upright and opening the slide roller, and including a spring coil on the pivot of the bail end having redial arms, one engaging the boil and the other a nezn: mil.

5. In a mop wringing" attachment to)" :1 bucket, pair of parallel rails means to secure the ends of each mil to the inner face of a bucket well, a hail pivoted on and medially of the length oi the mils so :is to form the bucket handle when the rails are secured to the bucket well. :1 lmtti'w-s roller joni'nnlled in said rails in n iixed position to one side of the bail ems, said i'rils having: slots extending from the bail tlllt'ilmiljft toward the opposite ends from the buttress roller, a compression roller having: :1 he't't .sliding in the slots and extending then through, and links connected to the staid shattontside of the i'nils and to and inside of the bail arms.

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